Wildfire : a reader / edited by Alianor True.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

True, Alianor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fire ecology.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 246 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press, [2001]

Contents:

Introduction: Fire from the Sky xiii

Part I. Big Country, Big Fires

Myths of the Cherokee: The First Fire / Cherokee Tale 7

How Tol'-le-loo Got the Fire for the Mountain People / Miwok Tale 9

Excerpt from The Journals of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark / Meriwether Lewis 11

Selection from A Tour on the Prairies / Washington Irving 12

Selection from The Allegash and East Branch / Henry David Thoreau 19

Selection from John of the Mountains / John Muir 25

Selection from My First Summer in the Sierra / John Muir 27

Selection from Roughing It / Mark Twain 29

The Big Blowup / Stephen J. Pyne 34

Part II. Of Fire and the Landscape

Grass, Brush, Timber and Fire in Southeast Arizona / Aldo Leopold 53

Selection from Young Men and Fire / Norman Maclean 63

After the Fire / Margaret Millar 79

Selection from Panther! / Roger Caras 84

Fire Lookout: Numa Ridge / Edward Abbey 90

Fire / Ed Engle 113

Part III. Fire as Foe, Fire as Friend

Incineration of Yellowstone / Ted Williams 133

Selection from Fireline: Summer Battles of the West / Michael Thoele 156

Selection from The Control of Nature / John McPhee 170

Selection from Fire on the Mountain / John Maclean 177

The Fires Next Time / Rick Bass 187

Pride and Glory of Firefighting Is Hard to Resist / Louise Wagenknecht 196

Firefinder / Alianor True 200

First Burn / Gretchen Dawn Yost 209

The Shape of Things to Come / Keith Easthouse 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224) and index.

ISBN:

1559639067

1559639075

OCLC:

46642207